IT'S OFFICIAL: FIREFOX IS A BOMB PER SYMANTEC
ZD Net is reporting that Mozilla browsers (Mozilla, Firefox, and probably Netscape) are more vulnerable to hackers now than IE. Mozilla has always scared me with their casual approach to handling problems. I may have to just stop using it altogether. The actual warning is from Symantec which originally reported many eons ago that Firefox was more secure than IE. Per another ZD Net article,
Firefox not only has more vulnerabilities per month than Internet Explorer, but it is now surpassing Internet Explorer for the number of exploits available for public download in recent months.The piece then lists comparisons of attacks between Firefox and IE and the difference is startling. May make you switch back to something else too. Mozilla is a fringy operation, to put the best possible light on them.
Late Add: there are now twelve stories about it on Google.
1 comment:
ALL the browsers suck at security.
The problem: a browser is a browser, it's not a security program. Computers, home computers, are just made wrong, bad design, and no amount of poorly written security software will fix it. Well written security software would be a help, but the big players, for reasons known only to them, REFUSE TO WRITE THE CODE NECCESSARY. All AV software, etc, is a rip-off, those people are little better than the people who write the spyware. It's worse now, then even I ever thought it would get. But it's easy, actually, to fix this problem, so why don't they? I don't know, myself. The anti-spyware people must be making too much money selling false programs, it's in their interest NOT to solve the problem entirely. An opportunity here for an enterprising software guy!!
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